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Converting 2-column list to glossary

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Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Converting 2-column list to glossary
Poster: Tony M

I have a two-part problem:

1) I often receive 2 column aligned SOURCE / TARGET lists of terms — basically, a client glossary.
Does anyone know of a convenient utility that can be used to convert this into a CAT tool glossary (in my case, for Wordfast Classic, but the actual tool isn't really the issue)? As far as I have been able to ascertain, my CAT tool doesn't have a built-in utility for doing this (though I may be wrong!)

I have a manual workaround which involves looking at an existing glossary — which is basically a tab-separated text file — and counting the number of tabs (many of which only separate blank fields that I don't need to use. I then add enough blank columns to the right of my bilingual table to create the corresponding number of tabs, convert table-to-text, and then to be on the safe side, copy and paste that text into an existing blank glossary. But it's a bit long-winded, and a little routine for doing it would certainly help!

2) I currently have a particular glossary with a slightly different format — it has 2 lines for each entry, the first being the acronym and its translation, and then the second being the expanded form of the acronym and its translation. What I need to do is get the two acronyms in to the Source and Target fields of my glossary, and then the 2 expanded forms together into the 'Notes' field; anyone got any brilliant ideas how to do this? i suspect I am going to have to first manually combing the expanded text + translation into a 3rd column alongside the acronyms, and then proceed with my original system as above, albeit with one less 'extra' column.

All suggestions gratefully received!

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